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From: Pete Kuczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:02:08 -0500
>My primary key field is a auto incremented index, the field I want to
>make unique, or to say, prevent duplicates in, is the hostname field,
>which has, hostnames of devices. Is the key word UNIQUE then?
>
>Not all of the devices have hostnames assigned to them, like terminals,
>so the hostname field is blank in many cases. If I make that field
>UNIQUE, will that cause a problem, with multiple blank fields?
I believe that a unique index field will permit Null values.
Aaron
(sql - these filters are really annoying!)
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